Chicago Fire vs Sporting Kansas City 10/17/20 - MLS Picks & Predictions

Last Updated: 10/15/2020 at 10:15 AM ET

The Chicago Fire FC hosts Sporting Kansas City on Saturday in an MLS fixture. Chicago Fire is in 11th place in the Eastern Conference of the MLS  at5-4-8 on 19 points with a goal difference of -4. Chicago is coming off a 2-1 victory over DC United in its most recent outing. midweek Chicago head its match with Minnesota United postponed due to positive covid tests. In the victory over DC United on October 11th, CJ Sapong and Boris Sekulic scored for Chicago.

Chicago Fire has three wins, one draw and one loss in its last 5 matches played in the MLS and over that span has scored 10 goals and allowed four. the Chicago backline and goalkeeper have to clean sheets in the last five matches. Robert Beric is the leading goal scorer for Chicago Fire with seven and Fabian Herbers has scored four. The leader in assists is Alvaro Medran with six.

Sporting Kansas City sits in third place in the Western Conference at 9-2-6 on 29 Points and has a goal difference +6. Sporting KC is just one point adrift of both the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers. Sporting Casey is coming off a disappointing 1-0 Los on the road to Dallas on Wednesday. In the complete match, Sporting KC was able to put six three shots on target against the FC Dallas defense, but could not get one passed Dallas keeper Jimmy Maurer.

Sporting Kansas City has three wins and two losses in his last five matches played and over that span has scored six goals and allowed five. Sporting Kansas City has been shut out once and has one clean sheet in his last five matches. Johnny Russell is the leading goal scorer for Sporting Kansas City with six and Alan Pulido has scored five. Pulido is also the leader in assists with four.

Over the last five matches played head-to-head between these two MLS rivals, Chicago Fire has one Victory and Sporting Kansas City has won four. in the most recent match-up head-to-head Sporting Kansas City was a 1-0 winner over Chicago Fire just 8 days ago. Sporting Kansas City played well on the road and it's lost to Dallas and will carry over that momentum with another Victory on the road on Saturday to take all three points. Final Score Prediction, Sporting Kansas City wins 2-0 

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